Authors@UF: Lillian Guerra
Event Start Date: October 03, 2018 3:00 PM
Event End Date: October 03, 2018 4:30 PM
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Authors@UF: Dr. Lillian Guerra
Heroes, Martyrs and Political Messiahs in Revolutionary Cuba, 1946-1958
October 3 | 3:00 PM
Smathers Library Room 100
Lillian Guerra draws on her years of research in newly opened archives and on personal interviews to shed light on the men and women of Cuba who participated in mass mobilization and civic activism to establish social movements in their quest for social and racial justice and for more accountable leadership. Driven by a sense of duty toward la patria (the fatherland) and their dedication to heroism and martyrdom, these citizens built a powerful underground revolutionary culture that shaped and witnessed the overthrow of Batista in the late 1950s.